The company that made checkout credit feel almost invisible is building something much larger: a portfolio that follows customers from the shopping cart to payday, savings and everyday banking across Southeast Asia.
JULO is an Indonesian fintech company building a digital credit platform that gives emerging and underbanked consumers fast, app-based access to cash loans, paylater, bill payments and installment credit. Founded in 2016 and licensed by Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK), JULO uses machine learning and big data to score creditworthiness in minutes rather than the hours or days a traditional bank takes. By its ninth anniversary in December 2025 the company had disbursed more than USD 1.7 billion in financing to over 3.28 million users across all 38 provinces of Indonesia.
PT Pendanaan Teknologi Nusa is an Indonesian financial-technology company that runs pendanaan.com and its flagship KTA Kilat mobile app, a peer-to-peer and digital-credit platform that delivers small, collateral-free cash loans to consumers who are typically underserved by traditional banks. Backed by parent company Hadoop Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited and Chinese venture firm Legend Capital, the company uses big-data credit scoring to assess and disburse loans quickly through mobile devices. Registered with Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK), Pendanaan has served hundreds of thousands of borrowers and positions itself as a bridge between individual borrowing needs and lenders across Indonesia.
SuperAtom Fintech is a Singapore-based financial technology company founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Cheetah Mobile. It builds digital lending and buy-now-pay-later products for underserved and unbanked consumers in emerging markets, using AI and big data to approve and disburse small, collateral-free loans quickly. Its flagship product UangMe operates in Indonesia under an OJK license, and the company has expanded toward the Philippines and Latin America with its Peso Chido brand. SuperAtom reports around 9 million registered users and over US$684 million in cumulative loan disbursements.